Schedule - Live Polling (Admin Overview)

An overview on polling your audience throughout your event and sessions

SETTING UP SURVEYS

You may learn how to set up Surveys through our collection of  Survey education articles here. 

ENABLING LIVE POLLING FOR YOUR EVENT

To enable Live Polling capabilities for your event, visit the admin site, visit Schedule, visit Options, then select Enable Live Polling.


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SETTING UP LIVE POLLING FOR SCHEDULE ITEMS

Once enabled, select Live Polling in the menu:


You will be navigated to the list of all Live Polls for your event


To create a new Live Poll, select the + button, you will be brought to this screen


You will want to enter the Name of the Live Poll, which is only used for your own tracking purposes, the Session you'd like the Live Poll associated with and the Survey you'd like to use for the Live Poll.

SENDING LIVE POLLS

To view your live polls from the Live Polling list, select Live Poll


Selecting this option will bring you to the list of questions and management options for your Live Poll



Starting & Managing Your Live Poll

Select Start Live Poll to send out notification to attendees that Live Poll has begun.


Once started, you will see that each question has the Actions column enabled to Send Question and/or View Results



Ending Live Poll

Select End Live Poll to officially close out the Live Poll for all attendees. We know it is an enticing orange button, but only select if you're sure you want to end your live poll.

Refreshing Live Poll Results

Select Refresh if you'd like to refresh the results of your live poll in real-time.

Viewing Users in Poll

Select the Users tab to view all users that Live Poll was sent to along with their response status.



VIEWING LIVE POLL RESULTS

There is a Live Poll results website that updates within 5 seconds of attendees answering for your viewing pleasure:


You may view the results of your Live Poll in multiple methods:
    .1Once your Live Poll has been started, select View Results from any question to open the Live Poll results webpage.


You may visit your Surveys list within the Materials menu item in admin:


Then select the somewhat vague results icon:


This will bring up the results of your survey, which has multiple view options as well:


Visit the Surveys collection of our knowledge center for all details regarding surveys, but to review the Live Poll results select the View ARS Webpage button.